Iwānnīs of Dārā on Soul’s Virtues: About a Late Antiquity Greek Philosophical Work among Syrians and Arabs

Iwānnīs of Dārā on Soul’s Virtues: About a Late Antiquity Greek Philosophical Work among Syrians and ArabsStudia Graeco-ArabicaSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/29YDPR9Y/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.MauroZontaIwānnīs of Dārā on Soul’s Virtues: About a Late Antiquity Greek Philosophical Work among Syrians and Arabshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/29YDPR9Yhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/29YDPR9Yhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/29YDPR9YStudia Graeco-Arabica52015129-143The Syriac author Iwānnīs of Dārā (first half of the 9th century), in his still unpublished <i>Treatise on the Soul</i>, employed a pseudo-Platonic treatise <i>On the Subsistence of Soul’s Virtues</i> among his sources: a treatise whose text is lost in Greek, but is preserved in an Arabic version. A comparison of the Arabic version with the Syriac quotations found in Iwānnīs of Dārā’s work strongly suggests that the former depends upon a lost Syriac complete version, from which the latter was taken, too. The Syriac version also influenced some passages of Severus bar Šakkō’s Book of Dialogues, so showing the diffusion of this text by this way in Near East till to 1240. Moreover, there is a still unknown influence of it upon a passage of a work by a Judaeo-Arabic author, a contemporary and compatriot of Iwānnīs of Dārā: Dawūd al-Muqammiṣ’s Twenty Chapters, where the same Syriac text found in Iwānnīs of Dārā’s own work seems to have been used as a source. This passage of Dawūd al-Muqammiṣ’s work might have influenced even a passage of Aḥmad ibn Miskawayh’s Correction of Morals. In the Appendix, the Syriac terminology of some important passages of Iwānnīs of Dārā’s work are compared with the terminology found in the corresponding passages of some Patristic Greek and Arabic texts. Zonta, Mauro. “Iwānnīs of Dārā on Soul’s Virtues: About a Late Antiquity Greek Philosophical Work among Syrians and Arabs.” Studia Graeco-Arabica 5 (2015): 129–43. Mauro Zonta, Iwānnīs of Dārā on Soul’s Virtues: About a Late Antiquity Greek Philosophical Work among Syrians and Arabs, Studia Graeco-Arabica 5 (2015): 129–43.Greek philosophyIX CEJacob bar ShakkoJacobitesJohn of DaraMuslim-Christian relationsSyriac influence [Arabs]VII-XVIII CEsoultranslations from Greektranslations into Syriac